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Never till this year have we heard, or even suspected that our state was governed by lawless mobs.
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Daggett expresses his disbelief at the notion that Connecticut was governed by lawless mobs until that year.
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Men of the most unsuspected integrity, were openly attacked by anonymous publications, or dispoiled of their good name by secret insinuations.
To that suffering nation turn your eyes and reflect that the mighty mass of woe under which they have groaned, was produced by an ambition, fierce, cruel and destructive as hell, and that an ambition alike terrible reigns every where.
Even the illustrious Saviour of his Country was accused of embezzling public money, and his followers could not expect a less happy fate.
Can any man doubt either the truth of this remark or the sincerity with which it is uttered?
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